Prince of Ruin by Bec McMaster

Author:Bec McMaster [McMaster, Bec]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Lochaber Press PL
Published: 2022-05-22T18:30:00+00:00

6

The blood was the problem.

It slicked her thighs, drying sticky between them. Sera tried to drag the sheets up to hide it, but he caught her wrist, his expression freezing when he saw the mess there.

Azazel’s heated stare cut right through her.

“You were a virgin.” He said it the same way one would say “there’s a tiger on the lawn.” Slightly shocked. A little unbelieving. Lashed with traces of denial.

Sera gave a shaky laugh, jerking her hand free and finally yanking the sheets into place. “I told you…. I was waiting for you.”

This time when his eyes narrowed, it wasn’t because he didn’t believe her. No. He was picking his way through the words, trying to pinpoint the truth.

Because it felt like truth—the words rang like a crystal bell—and yet, even as he shook his head she could see he didn’t want to believe it.

“You are a mystery,” he said. And then he pushed to his feet, the sleek glide of olive skin riding over those long, lean muscles. “Stay here.”

He disappeared into the bathroom.

Sera collapsed back on the bed, grinding the heels of her palms against her eyes. He’d let her remove the wings, but her stockings were still caught around her thighs. She was almost afraid to let her breath burst from her as if the dream would collapse around her.

Her skin held the memory of every moment of that encounter.

It had been rough. Raw. Mind-blowing.

She didn’t know what to think, except that the connection that had always lurked between them was still there.

Only… he would never let her unearth it.

A tap turned, somewhere in the bathroom. Sera rolled onto her side and stared at the door, wincing a little as a gush of seed flooded from her body. What was she meant to—?

The door opened, Azazel’s body highlighted in stark relief against the lights within.

Her breath caught once again, because he was beautiful.

Hauntingly beautiful.

And so damned untouchable she could barely think.

“Here.” He knelt on the bed and drew the sheets back, despite her sudden rush to rescue them.

“What are you—?” Her voice squeaked out as the warm washcloth in his hand traced between her thighs.

No, he was not.

He was.

He cleaned her tenderly, even as she pressed her hands over her face to try and hide her utter mortification. The washcloth left her skin, and then his breath stirred between her thighs and he kissed her there. Gently.

Sera tore her hands down as he looked up. His expression in that moment was unguarded. Not quite as unreachable as she would have suspected.

“None of this makes any sense,” he told her, slipping under the sheets and hauling her back into his arms. “Least of all that. You were a virgin.”

His tone said, explain.

“It’s complicated.”

“Everything about you is,” he said, and the mockery in his voice was aimed entirely at himself. A hand slid down over the curve of her hips. “But try to explain.”

“Okay, fine.” She shivered in his arms. “I was a virgin.”

“A rarity in this day and age.

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